NVIDIA CFO: Lower-Cost Fermi Products Due in the Middle of the Year

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/470 is set to debut next month, but the pricing is undoubtedly beyond the budget of mainstream users. NVIDIA has recently revealed that they’re releasing lower-cost Fermi products sometime in the middle of the year.

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TSMC R&D Leader Addresses 40nm Yield Issues, High-k, Litho

 

Shang-Yi Chiang, Senior Vice President of R&D at TSMC addressed several hot discussed issues at the TSMC Japan Executive Forum in Yokohama earlier this week, including the company’s 40nm capacity & yield issues, high-k and 28nm & 22nm technologies.

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Second-tier Makers Unlikely to Start Mass Shipments of Fermi Cards Until April

 

NVIDIA has already confirmed that the GeForce GTX480/470 will make their debut on March 26th, but rumors circulating around the web indicate that second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Fermi products until April since most of the them have not yet received complete reference board designs.

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More Sneak Peek at Asus HD 5970 Ares Graphics Card

 

Yesterday we reported Asus Radeon HD 5970 Ares graphics card coming from their famous ROG series, and the Semiaccurate site has scored a couple of pictures of its PCB.

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